From: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"Jiří Pírko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"Roopa Prabhu" <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
"Jeff Kirsher" <tarbal@gmail.com>,
"John Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] route: label externally offloaded routes
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:24:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317132456.GG12614@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4R7bC7JPPL2ak0e=qUs3YGhdt81tq1v66+4pDy-bFERXnUyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:14:50PM -0700, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Andy Gospodarek
> <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:31:34PM -0700, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> v2:
> >>
> >> No clear outcome on polling for choices of "external", "offload", "hw", or
> >> "hardware". Andy's concern about "external" being confusing for users is
> >> valid. So, I'm making executive decision to use "external_offload" for label,
> >> as suggested by Jiri.
> >
> > This seems like quite a mouthful. Just make it 'offload' or 'hardware'
> > so the output of 'ip route show' isn't so long that it will frequently
> > be longer than 80 chars. Being longer than 80 chars is going to be
> > irritating for _many_ users.
>
> Andy, since you have passion on this topic, would you mind taking it
> from here to get consensus, and post an updated patch, if needed?
Absolutely. I felt bad responding with more complaints yesterday
without proposing an alternative patch.
I'll be happy to handle this -- it will elimininate at least one
complainer!
> I was about to suggest a new made-up work like "keroff" and someday
> the new word is added to Websters . Daddy, what's "keroff"? Oh son,
> that means "offloaded from kernel to external device". Ya, actually,
> that's my vote: keroff.
Bless you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-15 19:31 [PATCH iproute2 v2] route: label externally offloaded routes sfeldma
2015-03-16 13:18 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-16 13:46 ` roopa
2015-03-17 4:14 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-17 7:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-17 13:24 ` Andy Gospodarek [this message]
2015-03-17 13:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-17 19:15 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-24 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-03-25 0:33 ` Andy Gospodarek
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